{"id":2023,"date":"2012-02-27T19:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjr.ufv.ca\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2012-02-27T19:39:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:39:55","slug":"booster-seats-boost-until-big-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/2012\/02\/27\/booster-seats-boost-until-big-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Booster Seats: Boost until Big Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">While most parents acknowledge the necessity of car seats for babies, many are not aware of the need to properly restrain older children. Seat belts are designed for people who are at least <strong>4 feet 9 inches<\/strong> (145cm) tall.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">In a crash, a proper fitting seat belt places pressure evenly across the shoulder, <span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">chest, and hip bones <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u2013 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">the strongest parts of the body. When a child is too <\/span><\/span>small for a seat belt, it tends to cross over the more vulnerable places of the <span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">body such as the neck and stomach. \u2018<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Seat belt syndrome<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u2019 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">is how doctors <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">describe injuries to the spine and internal organs <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u2013 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">something that happens to <\/span><\/span>children who were too small to use a regular seat belt.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcjr.ufv.ca%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F03%2FBooster-Seats.pdf&hl=en_US&embedded=true\" class=\"gde-frame\" style=\"width:100%; height:500px; border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p class=\"gde-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cjr.ufv.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Booster-Seats.pdf\" class=\"gde-link\">Download (PDF, Unknown)<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most parents acknowledge the necessity of car seats for babies, many are not aware of the need to properly restrain older children. Seat belts are designed for people who are at least 4 feet 9 inches (145cm) tall. In a crash, a proper fitting seat belt places pressure evenly across the shoulder, chest, and &#8230; <a title=\"Booster Seats: Boost until Big Enough\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/2012\/02\/27\/booster-seats-boost-until-big-enough\/\" aria-label=\"More on Booster Seats: Boost until Big Enough\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":2028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-sheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/cpscjr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}